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Very well done! Is there a word for when you use a word in the excruciatingly correct way but are guaranteed to misguide 99% of the audience who reads it?
by joegahona 4y ago
Very well done! Is there a word for when you use a word in the excruciatingly correct way but are guaranteed to misguide 99% of the audience who reads it?
- rightbyte 4y ago"Literally", which is such a word itself.
- manojlds 4y ago99% literally use literally wrong though.
- amarento 4y agoAnd the converse of "Literally" is, or should be, "Illiterally", I think, I don't know, literally.
- scrumper 4y agoM-x mansplain-pedant-mode It's "figuratively" or, more... literally, "metaphorically."
- 93po 4y agopretty sure it was a joke
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- shkkmo 4y agoI would consider the converse of "literally" to be "figuratively". "Literally" literally means "literally", but figuratively now means "figuratively".
- purpleblue 4y ago"Deprecate" is a great example of this. Everyone gets it wrong, but no one seems to care. Deprecate means "to continue supporting but to discourage its use." 99% of people believe it means to end support.
- shkkmo 4y agoReally? I see that word used correctly more often than not, but I guess it depends on what projects you work with.